The concept of action
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Enfield N. J. (1966-....) ; Sidnell Jack ;
- Editeurs : Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY [etc.] Cambridge University Press ;
- Date d'édition : 2017
- ISBN : 978-0-521-89528-6, 0-521-89528-6, 978-0-521-71965-0, 0-521-71965-8
- Sujets : Interaction sociale, Sociolinguistique, Ethnolinguistique
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxi-222 p.), : Ill., couv. ill. en coul., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : Royaume-Uni, États-Unis, ZZ
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : New departures in anthropology
Notes
Bibliogr. p. 202-217. Index
Résumé
La 4e de couv. indique : 'When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars have assumed a category of things called actions: 'requests', 'proposals', 'complaints', 'excuses'. The idea is both convenient and intuitive, but as this book argues, it is a spurious concept of action. In interaction, a person's primary task is to decide how to respond, not to label what someone just did. The labeling of actions is a meta-level process, appropriate only when we wish to draw attention to others' behaviors in order to quiz, sanction, praise, blame, or otherwise hold them to account. This book develops a new account of action grounded in certain fundamental ideas about the nature of human sociality: that social conduct is naturally interpreted as purposeful; that human behavior is shaped under a tyranny of social accountability; and that language is our central resource for social action and reaction'